Happy Birthday Donna! When we spoke with Donna on Wednesday evening she had plans to have lunch at Chuck-E-Cheese with Nic. I hope she enjoyed her birthday. tee! hee! Patty actually wrote the words to happy birthday in Spanish but we didn't get to use it. It is hard to sing in Spanish by the way.
Breakfast was fast and easy. If you make a large batch of frijoles (refried beans) you can feed 'gringos' for a weak or more-- you just change the egg, boiled, scrambled etc.! After eating we walked the couple of blocks to school. The roads are narrow and cobblestone and therefore difficult to walk on. The sidewalks are unique! They are at all levels, made of a variety of materials, broken is spots and most have a hugh lamp post parked in the middle. I have to watch my feet as I walk and to 'see' the sights it is necessary to stop moving and look up. It is a challenge to either walk in the street or try the sidewalks.
The activity after class was a typical Guatemala lunch prepared at school. We had already had two versions of the chicken with sauce over rice with our host family who were Mayan. The food was tasty cooked by Marlo as she used more spices than our host family does. It was later that day that I began to feel bad. No one else who ate at the school got sick. Soon after lunch I began to have cold chills so bad my teeth chattered and all the muscles in my body were soon tired from the shivering. I did have some diarrhea but not like we had read was a reaction to food poisoning. I stayed home from school and stay upstairs in my room in bed. Hortensia came up later in the morning and brought me a bowl of freshly peeled fruit. I had no fever and no vomiting and at that point no headache.
